BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Vilas County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Big Sand Lake Club
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 14 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4571 Big Sand Lake Club Rd., Phelps, 54554
- When was it listed? January 2005
- Category. building
- Town. Phelps town
- National Register reference number. 04001487 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Big Sand Lake Club between 1998 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | DAVIES |
| 26 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | FINGER FIRE |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | 3213B |
| 24 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | NORWOOD SHAMION |
| 10 August 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | EAGLE FARM |
| 4 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 190521 |
| 28 July 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | LIGHTWEIGHT |
| 1 June 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest | SMOKY LAKE SOUTH |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Big Sand Lake Club: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Lake Gravel Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Long Lake Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Military Creek Gravel Pitt | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phelps, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Phelps area. One building sustained damage from a fallen tree. |
| July 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Phelps | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Phelps | - | Quarter size hail fell near Kentuck Lake. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees near Phelps. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Phelps. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees onto power lines in Phelps. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Phelps | - | A thunderstorm dropped nickel size hail near Phelps. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | - | Several trees down from Conover to Phelps. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | - | Severe thunderstorms moved through Vilas County, producing dime- size hail at Lac du Flambeau, and the Arbor Vitae/Sayner area. Farther to the northeast, the powerful thunderstorm winds blew large trees down in the Phelps area. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Phelps | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phelps | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Eagle | 2.2 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04001487 in Record Group 79. |
| Vilas County | All 15 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.